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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1408: The Best Players of the Decade

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller, and Meg Rowley banter about “minimum innings,” striking out the side, and an anecdote about Barry Larkin bunting, then spend the rest of the episode answering a listener request to name the five best hitters and five best pitchers of the decade—but to make matters more interesting, they do so without […]

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0:00.0

Now turn the clock back, try and come back, try to walk in a horse, try to walk in the first hour,

0:14.1

I'm open, sure, and welcome to heaven, and welcome to earth, you're at my master

0:35.9

Good morning, and welcome to episode attendees, who woke up at 1408,

0:40.9

effectively wild, the baseball podcast from fangraphs.com, brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

0:47.1

I'm Sam Miller, of ESPN, along with both my friends, Meg Rally of fangraphs and Ben Lemberg,

0:53.2

the ringer. Hello, you both. Hello. Hello. How are you both doing? I'm sort of sick.

0:58.2

I'm pretty okay. And I got some good news about a Halloween candy stash. So, I think you're doing great.

1:04.4

Yeah, that's where we all are. You a couple days ago, you both recorded an episode where you talked about

1:10.8

this concept of kind of the opposite of the immaculate inning, the three-pitch inning, and I'm kind of loading the lead in here.

1:19.9

But in lieu of a better name for it, I think you settled on economical inning. And it's not my thing. I wasn't there.

1:27.0

I wasn't my episode. Meg wasn't there either. Yeah, I was like, I don't remember having that conversation at all.

1:32.6

Wait, you're there, Meg? No, that was the post. That was the...

1:36.7

Please. That was all right.

1:38.3

Step less depended to the end of the episode. That's right.

1:40.7

So, the economical inning was the listeners suggested and I just took it.

1:45.1

Yeah, you gave some sort of nod to approve economic inning or economic inning.

1:51.3

Economic inning. Well, anyway, I listened to that and I thought I would like to suggest a different name for it.

1:57.5

I realized that I might be overstepping if Ben and the listener and their little conspiracy here don't want to take a different name that's fine.

2:05.1

But I thought a lot about this and I have another option.

2:09.0

And I want to name this. This is again, this is the...

2:11.7

In inning where you get three outs on three pitches, I would like to call it a minimum inning.

2:16.5

And I am going to make my case for it in three points.

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